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The only stage dedicated to poetry at Glastonbury Festival

In each generation, poets try to explain anew what poetry does, using metaphors that reflect the technology of their age. In our internet era, Harryette Mullen writes: "If encyclopedia collects general knowledge, the recyclopedia salvages and finds imaginative uses for knowledge. That's what poetry does when it remakes and renews words, images, and ideas, transforming surplus cultural information into something unexpected."

In Their Own Words - Poetry Society of America

This poem began as an ars poetica. A glorified play on words. I wanted to riff about words and how they haunt us in our sleep. Or, better yet, when a poem writes you. What is the responsibility of the both-eyes-wide-open poet? How do we access freedom in language in discussing topics many audiences would rather not hear about, such as racialized violence?

"DP.f.30" is one of the first poems I wrote for the book called Double Portrait. All the things that I am going to tell you about this poem, and about all the Double Portraits, are things I didn't know as I was writing. The only thing I knew then was to do what I had always done: listen for the language, try to find the pattern, move toward whatever it was that was trying to reveal itself. But now I can see some things about the Double Portraits that I couldn't when I set out.

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Sidelight: are important to poetic effects; to create sounds appropriate tothe , the poet may sometimes prefer toachieve a cacophonous effect instead of the more commonly sought-for . The use of words with the consonants and for example, produce harsher sounds than the soft and or the liquid and

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Also called or , therepetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables inneighboring words or at short intervals within a line or passage, usually atword beginnings, as in "wild and woolly" or the line from the poem, :

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The word was first introduced to me in a workshop by the brilliant poet, Dawn Marie Knopf, and it means a spoken curse. It was irresistible as a conceit, but I didn't touch it for years. Imprecation. I grew up sealed shut, ashamed of my body, ashamed to speak. From imprecari, to invoke, call down upon.

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Let's return to the first poem we read, "Weep when I'm Gone." The second and third verses are:It isn't how many unusual words one uses that makes a poet;rather, it's how those words are used.

I trust I can rely on your poets

Of course, we know that prose and poetry are closely related and parts of the language of every nation; both are means of communicating ideas and, obviously, one uses the same words for both.

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"Nectarines" really started when Melissa asked me if I'd write a poem for a track off Siamese Dream. She used to host this reading series called Polestar in the basement of Cake Shop, and the idea was you take a record like Doolittle or Super Fly and you assign each poet a track. Give them a little head start, maybe a month to write a poem that approaches their song in some way, and when everyone meets in the basement they read their poems in the same order as the track listing.

Gaman is a Japanese word that can be translated as "endure," "persist," or "persevere," and is often used to describe how Japanese Americans reacted to the WWII incarceration. I don't speak Japanese, so I came to this word as many others do, through a history book. And yet, I understand enough about Japanese American culture to sense there is a lack in the terms "endure" or "persist." In this poem, I wanted to try to capture the word's essence through the experience of the poem.

I gave myself a simple prompt: Write a poem of thanks. Like I'm delivering an acceptance speech at the Oscars or something, but the only "award" I've received is the gift of being alive. How would I convey my appreciation with that red light blinking, urging that my time is almost up? How would I rush that unspeakable gratitude into words?

The National Youth Poet Laureate initiative (YPL) is a program of Urban Word, an award-winning youth literary arts and youth development organization, that strives to elevate the voices of teens while promoting civic engagement and social justice. Through building visible and deep-seated partnerships with city agencies and government, the YPL program situates youth voices in spaces of power and attempts to equip young people with opportunities to creatively respond to the litany of social and political factors that impact their cities and their lives. To be recognized as a city or region's Youth Poet Laureate, young people undergo a comprehensive and rigorous application process that considers not only the artistic merit and subject matter of their writing, but also their commitment to servicing their communities in a number of extracurricular ways. The first and only of its kind in the nation, the NYPL program strives to provide a platform for youth to assume central roles in the cultural and political climates of their communities.

50 Powerful Quotes about Poetry | Words Dance Publishing

In the specific sense, a type of which utilizes a correspondence of sound inthe final accented vowels and all that follows of two or more words, but thepreceding consonant sounds must differ, as in the words, and . In apoetic sense, however, refersto a of sound aswell as an correspondence; itincludes the agreement of vowel sounds in and the repetition of consonant sounds in and . as well as in sound echoes between words contribute to the effect, stimulate intellectual appreciation, provide a powerful mnemonicdevice, and serve to unify a poem. Terms like , , and function to distinguishbetween the types of rhyme without prejudicial intent and should not beinterpreted as expressions of value. Usually, but not always, rhymes occur atthe ends of lines.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes

Harmony or beauty of sound that provides a pleasingeffect to the ear, usually sought-for in poetry for effect. It is achieved notonly by the selection of individual word-sounds, but also by their relationshipin the repetition, proximity, and flow of sound patterns.